G'Day and welcome to my web site
At Noyce Guitars, we build most types of guitar and repair
guitars and other musical instruments.

"I have spent over 35 years designing and developing
a range of electric and acoustic guitars, basses, mandolins
and other hand crafted products. This web site contains
information about the products and services available through
Noyce Guitars as well as useful technical information I've
compiled and published over the years."

"I hope you find my website of interest."

- Ian Noyce
Luthier

** Retirement Notice -
May 2017 **

Having recently celebrated my 70th birthday with eyes and hands not working as well as they used to, I have retired from instrument making.

Whilst still doing some repair work, I’ll be spending more time building stuff, like model aircraft, and going bush camping.

I wish to keep this website going as an information and resource thing.

I humbly thank all the wonderful people who entrusted me with building an instrument for them over the last forty plus years.

As an American friend said recently “I thought getting old would take longer!”

This section includes detailed pictorial descriptions
of a few interesting repair jobs that we have undertaken over the years. On these pages we show exactly how we've approached instrument repairs
with lots of colour glossies showing the steps
taken to complete the job.

Technotes
Find technical data about guitar making for the student or
interested party. There are a range of articles written by Ian
Noyce for various magazines and publishers including Choosing
a Guitar and basic Guitar
Maintenance.

Noycelands
I live on a 5 Ha (13 Acre) bush property on the outskirts
of Ballarat, Victoria about 100 Km from Melbourne. Many
years ago a friend with a sense of humor dubbed it "Noycelands"
and it kind-of stuck. This area contains a collection
of stories about Ian
Noyce and the evolution of Noyce Guitars.

Check out the Gallery containing pictures of the many people - muso's and
others - that we've come to know over the years.